Civil Year

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or year:

“There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“But she is early up and out,
To trim the year or strip its bones;”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)